Skocpol is the author, most recently, of Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn; and The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the […]

talk in the Tequila Mondays series hm 4/8/10

Although it was not until the early 1980s that high stakes Indian Gaming was permitted in the United States, at the time of the arrival of Europeans in North America […]

Sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group and the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Ph.D. Emphasis. jwil 01.v.2010

Unlike other American countries, Peru does not have a memory of its nineteenth-century civil wars. Peru's political confrontations lacked the clear-cut ideological contours that characterized civil strife in, say, the […]

Award-winning author and journalist Ian Buruma will discuss the debates about Muslim radicalism, immigration, and the challenge from religion in several European countries where anti-immigrant populism is on the rise […]

History is replete with nations that declined because their leaders gradually undermined their own best institutions. The U.S. now appears to be doing this to its exemplary higher education system, […]

talk in the Tequila Mondays series hm 4/8/10

Prof. Medina's research deals with the adoption of computer technologies in Latin America, especially cybernetics in Allende's Chile. From 1971 to 1973 Chilean and British engineers, working under the direction […]

Presentations by Suzanne Levine, Seth Wulsin, Damian Nemirovsky and Kacey Link. hm 5/19/10